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Namingway is a Hummingway, and he appears in various towns around the world, often in the training rooms, and in the end even on the Red Moon in a cave full of Hummingways, which is where he originally came from. His purpose is to offer to change the names of party members. Characters can have their names changed multiple times.

Namingway (DS).

In the 3D remake, because of the voice-acting, Namingway can no longer change the characters' names. Unable to deal with this, Namingway embarks on a world tour, seeking new meaning to his life. In each town he is encountered in, Namingway gives the player an item or asks a request of them. At one point, he even battles them himself. The full story of Namingway involves him becoming a cartographer, a musician, and an outdoorsman. He begins courting two women, and when he finally chooses one of them to be with, he discovers she is cheating on him. Namingway thus abandons her and meets another woman, whom he marries.

Namingway is friends with the Fat Chocobo, who takes over the various devices that Namingway gives the player access to. Namingway appears in the following locations. Namingway will not appear in the next location until met in the preceding location and the subquest for that location completed.

In the Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection, he retains his appearance from the original release of Final Fantasy IV wherein he wears a turban over his head. He also retains his original purpose as the name changer.

Namingway appears in various locations around the world at the end of each chapter. Due to being unable to change names, he instead changes his name to Challengingway and gives access to the Challenge Dungeons.

Namingway appears on a Tetra Master card. The card can be shown to a man in Daguerreo who will offer to change the name of one of the party members. It is arguably the rarest card in the game after Ozma, with only two chances to get it. One is found in Kuja's room in Desert Palace (near the teleporter, only after Eiko has been kidnapped).

The other chance is in Treno, during the card tournament. When the player is in control of Vivi, they are given the option of "going home", or staying in Treno. Choosing the latter will give Zidane a different opponent in the card tournament's second round, who holds the Namingway card. It is possible to win more than one Namingway card from him if he uses numerous copies in one hand.

In the mobile and Steam versions, the sprite on the card has been updated() to the one in Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection.

Namingway appears as a Sahagin in the Sky Saloon on the Galbana. When asked, he will change the Galbana's name. During the game's course Namingway will hide among various places in the Sky Saloon, usually in an area that partially conceals him.

Namingway allows the player to rename Tyro. He can be accessed from the main menu by selecting Profile, then Name Change. He also allows the player to leave a personal message of up to 30 characters in length for use with Roaming Warriors. The default is, "Hello there!". This message is changed by selecting Profile, then Edit Message.